And now the SxSW Music schedule is live!

Have fun sorting through all this….

“Dean’s List” and other music bits

So as I mentioned in the pre-“Cloverfield” post, I suggested a song title for Matt the Electrician and Southpaw Jones: Dean’s List. And I was able to return to Flipnotics North to see the results on the following Thursday (January 24). Southpaw’s was a bit, um, well, but Matt’s was fun, and now you can enjoy it on youtube. Aren’t you lucky? It’s from a subsequent performance at Saxon, which I missed, but I’ve tracked it down for you. Just for you, for no one else, so please click through, ok? Once there, you can find some other performances by Matt and by Bob Schneider from January 28, during AJFF when I was seeing the documentary about Jewish comediennes.

It seems like it was a different set of musicians playing with Bob that night, but I’ve enjoyed the shows at Saxon a couple of Mondays in February. As I mentioned in another previous post, Oliver Steck is playing with Bob on Mondays now, and Danny Levin has also been on stage, doing an excellent job with the cello and fiddle. For $10 cover plus a few bucks for Matt’s folks (who don’t get a cut of the cover), Mondays are easily the best value for a night of fine musical entertainment. (Fun things to know and tell: You have to be 21 to get in, and there’s nothing to eat unless you have Papa John’s deliver.)

On the other hand, Thursdays at Flips North aren’t too shabby, either. It’s all ages with no cover, but you should always take that tip jar seriously, folks!

Finding Oliver Steck

Someone who read about my New Year’s Eve and how much I enjoyed Oliver Steck sent me a list of up-coming dates:

Every Monday with Bob at Saxon

Every Thursday (except VD and 2/21) 10:30pm at Flipnotics with Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies (traditional jazz)

Tues	2/5	10pm	Ruta Maya	Austin Knights (New Orleans brass band)
Thurs	2/7	6-8	Elephant Room	with Mark Rubin
Fri	2/8	8-11	McCormick & Schmick’s downtown	with George Carver
Fri	2/8	11:30	Antone’s	with Bob Schneider
Sat	2/9	7:30-10	Treehouse Italian Grill	Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies
Sun	2/10	noon-3	Mother Egan’s	with the Polkasonics
Fri	2/15	7:30-10	Treehouse Italian Grill	Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies
Fri	2/15	10-mid	Sam’s Town Point	with John Emory
Sat	2/16	6:30-9	Central Market North	Son Y No Son
Sun	2/17	12:30-3	Central Market South	with Mark Rubin

Matt the Electrician has returned to Mondays at Saxon as well, making Mondays at the Saxon Pub your best bet for regular musical entertainment.

Thursday, part one

So Matt the Electrician and Southpaw Jones are already performing when I get to Flipnotics North, but I get a mocha (one shot regular so I can stay up until 2am, one shot decaf so I’m not up forever) and still find a seat up front. Fortunately, the song title challenge songs are still to come, and one of the previous week’s song title songs returns (MtE’s Obama song, which is now stuck in my brain).

Did you realize that the upcoming February has five Fridays? That was part of the challenge thrown out last week, which also somehow got some rainwater thrown in, perhaps due to the bottled water. So it was that we had two songs called “Five Fridays in February Rainwater Green Blues.” Or something like that. It’s obviously too long for a proper title.

But the songs were fine and I was ready to propose the next week’s: the Dean’s list. But as I didn’t make it clear that it was related to The Child, it got interpreted as having something to do with Howard, so I had to issue a stern injunction against smart remarks about the scream. Southpaw said he sympathized because he understands the damage a PA system can do. But I still have to return to hear it, because the only other time that my suggestion was accepted (years ago–something about chicken pox), I was unable to return for the results.

So the show is over and it’s 10pm-ish, and I head back to Alamo Village, hoping that I don’t find too many people waiting to get in.

NYE at Antone’s with Oliver Steck and that other guy…

So First Night was good, although we were more flitting about its periphery between attempts to buy a second ticket to Antone’s to see Bob Schneider.